Songs Quotes · Page 75

I was obsessed with harmonies and how to put songs together in lush soundscapes. But I don't know what it was all…

— Dan Smith

I love songs with, like, six or seven or eight different things going on at once, and that's just me.

— Jacob Collier

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

— Brenda Lee

Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.

— Ella Fitzgerald

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

— Becky G

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country…

— Blake Shelton

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of…

— Robert James Waller

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the…

— Rick Astley

“Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with…

— Shannon L. Alder

I actually had a bunch of songs that I worked on with Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed, but they were too heavy for…

— Sebastian Bach

Y'all should be happy for me. It's funny, compared to my peers, my catalog isn't even that big, but I'm still getting…

— Saweetie

“I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too…

— Leila Sales

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I…

— Marc Almond

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears…

— Gene Pitney

I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love…

— Chelsea Leyland

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the…

— Leonard Cohen

I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again,…

— Katie Stelmanis

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it…

— Fiona Apple

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”

— Yip Harburg

To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.

— Marcel Wanders

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

— Martina Sorbara

I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are…

— Josh Groban

There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain…

— Ginuwine

Some songs are sort of born in the studio but some songs are really half-written in the studio.

— Ron Mael

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

— Travis Barker

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

— Michael Hutchence

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.

— Steve Pink

Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

— Sam Smith

My songs would be nothing had it not been for my father. I follow his footsteps.

— Asha Bhosle

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

— Jock Stein

Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.

— Gillian Jacobs

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or…

— Brian Wilson

“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.”

— Elizabeth Eulberg

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

— Gin Wigmore

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

— Ginuwine

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

— Bob Dylan

Every time you fight the scars are gonna heal But they're never gonna go away.

— Simple Plan

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

— Peter Steele

It feels incredible to find the type of love I've been writing songs about all these years!

— Jimmie Allen

To me, Def Jam put my career on hold. I was used to making 13-14 songs a year, and they trickled that…

— Mannie Fresh